Submitted by Brenda Burton on Friday 30th January 2026
Published on Friday 6th March 2026
Current status: Open
Open until: Sunday 6th September 2026
Current Signatures: 45
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Tagged with
Blind ~ Breach ~ Ensure ~ Equal ~ Equality Act ~ Equality Act 2010 ~ Individuals ~ Parliament ~ PIP ~ Registered ~ Reviewed ~ Rule ~ Severe
Make people who are Registered Blind exempt from PIP reassessments
A recent review of PIP was intended to ensure that individuals with the most 'severe disabling conditions' are never again called for reassessments. However, being 'Registered Blind' is not classed as one and such people are therefore not exempt from reassessments.
We therefore believe that this is a breach of the Equality Act 2010, which Parliament passed so that the Government could not apply a rule like this that disadvantages these individuals who share a protected characteristic i.e. disability; and we call upon the Government to make being Registered Blind a lifelong disability which is exempt from PIP reassessments.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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